Book 13: Chapter 3 (1)
“We’re starting to see results of your training, and you’ve gotten better at fighting together too. I think it’s time for a trip to the dungeon.”
Almost two weeks had passed since Shin began training Lecus’ party. Thanks to training with Shin as an opponent, they had been able to give it their all without reserves, so they had already improved a lot. The dungeon’s inspection had concluded too, so Shin decided that it was about time to go.
“By the way, how far have you been in the dungeon?”
“The deepest part, floor 200. Rare monsters appeared and took residence there. We challenged them, but there were just too many, so we retreated before they overwhelmed us. Because of those monsters, no one has gone beyond floor 200.”
Among the monsters that spawned in dungeons there were also rare ones that dropped valuable items and equipment. They appeared in a few spots, and it was not easy to encounter them, but as all players knew, if you found them you had to take them down.
Rare monsters, however, had higher stats and levels than normal ones: sometimes even superior versions of the regular monsters appeared. Such monsters appeared ignoring any and all “suggested levels” for the dungeon, naturally, so sometimes the situation would reverse, with the players becoming monster prey.
Shin recalled that rare encounters seldom happened in training dungeons, but the possibility was still not zero, so he simply thought it wasn’t such a strange occurrence.
“It’s a large mob of enemies, I see. Do you know the monsters’ names?”
“As far as I could tell, there were Mob Ant Soldiers, Knights, Searchers and Archers. I think there were others in the back too, but I couldn’t identify them.”